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Looking for more easy sriracha recipes? Try my 20-Minute Sriracha Chicken, Honey Sriracha Salmon or my Slow Cooker Sriracha Meatballs!
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Sweet and Spicy Baked Honey Sriracha Chicken
I absolutely love all things sriracha — it is one of my favorite sauces and I tend to use it on everything! Really, though, I love anything spicy. If I’m not reaching for a glass of water it’s just not spicy enough for me. So when I needed to give my baked chicken recipe a spicy kick, I knew my sriracha sauce would be the perfect ingredient.
This oven-baked chicken has just the right level of spice, balanced out with the added sweetness from honey. If you prefer more heat and less sweet, you can always add more sriracha or red pepper flakes. Need to cool it down? Just add a little more honey or low-sodium soy sauce.
While I know ordering take-out is always an easy weeknight meal solution, I guarantee this recipe is simple enough to make in your own kitchen (and healthier, too). Plus, it takes less time than waiting for delivery! You will be eating these delicious, sweet and spicy chicken bites in less than 30 minutes. Whip up the sauce while the chicken is cooking in the oven, toss everything together and serve!
Ingredients
For the Chicken
- Boneless chicken breast
- All purpose flour
- Egg
- Panko breadcrumbs
For the Sriracha Sauce
- Vegetable oil
- Garlic clove
- Low-sodium soy sauce
- Honey
- Sriracha
- Water
- Crushed red pepper flakes
How to make Honey Sriracha Chicken
This chicken is so easy to make! Start by breading your chicken with flour, bake in the oven for 15 minutes. While the chicken bakes work on the sauce, then toss with the cooked chicken and enjoy.
Prep the Sriracha Sauce
- Combine oil and garlic: Add oil and garlic to a large saucepan. Cook for 1 minute.
- Add remaining ingredients: Whisk in soy sauce, honey, sriracha, water and crushed red pepper.
- Cook: Cook sauce on high heat until it thickens, stirring constantly, approximately 2 minutes.
- Set aside: Keep on low heat until you are ready to toss with the chicken.
Bake the Chicken
- Preheat oven: To 400 degrees F.
- Bread chicken: Begin with flour, egg, and then Panko breadcrumbs.
- Transfer to baking sheet: Line chicken onto a baking sheet lined with a silicon baking mat.
- Bake: Place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes until fully cooked and lightly brown on the outside.
- Add sauce: Take chicken out of the oven and toss with the Sweet and Spicy Honey Sriracha Sauce.
- Enjoy: Serve immediately and garnish with extra red pepper flakes and green onions if desired.
What to serve with Honey Sriracha Chicken
- Add a side of Pad Thai. I told you, no need for takeout! Load these delicious rice noodles up with your favorite veggies and fresh herbs — I always love to throw in bean sprouts, bell peppers, and carrots. This restaurant-quality Pad Thai will only add an extra 30 minutes to your cook time.
- You can’t go wrong with a veggie stir-fry. Stir-fried veggies are always an excellent side dish and are super easy to make, too. You can use whatever is in your pantry and even add in some of the honey sriracha sauce for added flavor. Leave out the noodles to keep this dish low carb.
- And my favorite, the Egg Roll in a Bowl! I’m a huge fan of “bowl” meals these days — rice bowls, smoothie bowls, cereal bowls — but this Egg Roll in a Bowl really does take the prize. It’s healthy, requires only one skillet, is gluten free, keto-friendly, and low carb. The best part? The leftovers are GREAT!
Here are more easy take-out recipes to try at home!
- Easy Chicken Stir Fry
- Honey Garlic Sesame Chicken
- Super Sticky Asian Chicken Bites
- Slow Cooker Honey Sriracha
- Honey Garlic Chicken
- Beef Rice Bowl
Sweet and Spicy Baked Honey Sriracha Chicken
Ingredients
Sweet and Spicy Baked Honey Sriracha Chicken
- 8 ounces boneless chicken breast, cubed
- ¼ cup all purpose flour
- 1 egg, whisked
- 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
Sweet and Spicy Honey Sriracha Sauce
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons sriracha
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
Instructions
Sweet and Spicy Honey Sriracha Sauce
- Add oil and garlic to a large saucepan. Cook for 1 minute.
- Whisk in soy sauce, honey, sriracha, water and crushed red pepper. Cook sauce on high heat until it thickens, stirring constantly. (About 2 minutes.)
- Set aside and keep on low heat until you are ready to toss with the chicken.
Sweet and Spicy Baked Honey Sriracha Chicken
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Start by breading your chicken. Begin with flour, egg and then Panko breadcrumbs.
- Line chicken onto a baking sheet lined with a silicon baking mat.
- Place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes until fully cooked and lightly brown on the outside.
- Take chicken out of the oven and toss with the Sweet and Spicy Honey Sriracha Sauce.
- Serve immediately and garnish with extra red pepper flakes and green onions if desired.
Nutrition Information
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Jill
Any idea on the number of calories in this round about?? Making for lunch today…
Kelley
Hi Jill,
I do not know the calorie count for these however I found a good recipe calculator here if you would like to try it out! https://www.caloriecount.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php
Thanks!
Kelley
Roxanne Gariépy
Delicious recipe, tasted excellent over a bed of asian noodles and soya beans. Flavours were great, although it was a bit too spicy for me. I would recommend adding the sriracha by taste rather than the full quantity for anyone unsure about too much spicyness.
Shawn
Hey Kelley;
First off, I absolutely love and make it quite often! I do however have a question that you might be able to shed some light on. During the flower, egg, pakno stage I always have major issues getting tons of egg and pakno on my hands while dipping the chicken in them. Do you have a process that seems to work well to keep your hands (remotely) clean during the breading?
Thanks,
Shawn
Kelley
Hi Shawn!
Great question! I use one hand ONLY for the dry ingredients and one hand ONLY for the wet ingredients. This helps from getting thick breading on your fingers.
I hope this helps! Thank you!
Kelley
Christina
I’m usually good at following recipes and consider myself a better than decent cook. With that being said I don’t know what went wrong with the sauce but I’m glad I tasted it because it tasted bitter and would have ruined my chicken. I ended up having to come up with a quick sauce so I threw some honey, ketchup, and sriracha together with a splash of oj. It saved the dish but I won’t be making it again.
Dev
Love this recipe, as we like spicy food. I love the combination of honey with sriracha and I generally make this sauce with crispy cauliflower. Going to try it with chicken sometime. Thanks for sharing.
Gary
Great recipe, i found that for 2 chicken breasts diced, i needed to double the sauce ingredients for it all to get a cover.
callmeafoodie
AS PROMISED, WAYYYY BETTER THAN TAKE OUT !!
Callmeafoodie – I made this using 2 full chicken breasts. I tripled the sauce recipe more or less and I adjusted the red pepper flakes to my liking (1 tsp total) , I also added onion powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper to the flour for dredging. I mixed panko and seasoned breadcrumbs and used well over 2 cups of it. I mixed a tablespoon of cornstarch into my water before adding it to unsure it got thick enough to really coat the chicken ! If I had of served this over rice, I would have doubled my tripled version of the recipe.
Tina
help!!! Never heard of Sriacha Sauce, looked in the supermarket and asked and no, went to my local Thai shop, no again, please help as the recipe sounds delicious!
Kelley
Hi Tina,
Sriracha will be in the Asian isle or the international foods section of the grocery store. Most all stores carry it now in the US. If you are outside of the US and are having trouble finding it I would try ordering it online through amazon https://www.amazon.com/Huy-Fong-Sriracha-Chili-Bottle/dp/B0002PSOJW?th=1
Hope this helps! Thanks!
Kelley
Samantha
Sweet and spicy baked honey sriracha chicken… This recipe was so spicy it was barely tolerable. It is super delicious, but I would suggests half the serving of
Sriracha or less… depending on your spicy tolerance. Next time I’m using one teaspoon of sriracha.
ken
This was great! Though it was a bit too spicy for me; next time I’d cut the Sriracha in half. I didn’t toss the chicken in the sauce, just dribbled it on instead. I also used blue corn meal instead of flour because my hand hit it first and used the juice of half an orange instead of water, which added some flavor and sweetness. I recommend using the green onions if you have them as they bring a lot to the party.